SpaceClaim Online Help

Appearance options

You can adjust SpaceClaim's appearance, such as its menu bar style and color schemes. This options page also contains placeholder elements for future color customization options.

To set color options

1. Select SpaceClaim Options from the File menu to display the SpaceClaim Options window.

2. Click Appearance in the navigation panel on the left.

3. Modify the options on the page.

4. Click OK to save all your changes and close the window.

General

Ribbon style: Choose between Fluent (Office 2007) or Scenic (Office 2010), or Windows 8 (Office 2013) style ribbon bar styles.With the Scenic style, the File menu provides a Recent menu item, which displays Recent Documents (lists the name and location of all recently opened files) and Recent Places (lists a history of all recently visited folders).

Color scheme: Select Silver, Blue, Black, or Custom Color from the menu.

Reset Docking Layout2D drawing mode that is most useful when you have no immediate need to generate 3D objects from the lines in the layout. If you try to pull layout lines to 3D, they do not behave the same way that sketched lines do. Think of a layout as a pencil drawing made on your design. When you are ready to use your layout to create geometry, you must project the layout lines to a sketch. Projecting a layout line to a sketch is like inking the line. You can import a 2D AutoCAD DXFDrawing Interchange Format or Drawing Exchange Format. CAD data file format developed by Autodesk for enabling data interoperability between AutoCAD and other programs. You can open and insert drawings, parts, and assemblies.Drawings can be inserted as layouts. You can export parts, assemblies, drawing sheets, and 3D markup slides. or DWGAutoCAD native drawing format. You can open and insert drawings, parts, and assemblies. Drawings can be inserted as layouts. You can export parts, assemblies, drawing sheets, and 3D markup slides. file as a layout.: Click this button to return the layout of the docking panels and SpaceClaim windows to their original locations.

Show cross sections in sketch: Display selectable section curves at the intersection of the section plane and bodies while in Sketch modeModeThree ways of designing: Sketch, Cross-section, or 3D. You can switch between modes at any time. for drawing in two dimensions using the sketching tools on the sketch grid. A sketch is a collection of lines and other 2D objects on a sketch grid. Sketching creates regions that can be pulled into 3D. When you pull your sketch into 3D with the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. tool, regions formed by intersecting lines will become solids and lines will become edges..

Show coaxial face groups: Display faces that share an axis with blue shading.

Show arc centers: Display small crosses on the sketch grid at the centers of circles, ellipses, polygons, and arcs.

Show section points: Toggle the display of points that represent tangent edges in Sketch and SectionDesign2D or 3D model that contains at least one top-level component. mode in which you edit solids by working with their edges and vertices in cross-section. ViewOrientation settings that you can apply to your design, including spin, pan, and zoom. You can adjust these settings individually or you can apply one of the following preconfigured views: Trimetric, Isometric, Top, Bottom, Front, Back, Right, Left. You can also select Snap View and click a face to view it head-on. is cut away to show interior detail. modes.

Show occluded mesh selection: Show mesh selection highlighting through objects. When the option is On, hidden mesh selections are shown. When it is Off, hidden mesh selections remain hidden.

FillUse the Fill tool to simplify or clean up geometry by extending surrounding faces to eliminate a selection. The selected region is filled in or healed with the surrounding surface or solid. cross section: Display cross section area with a filled appearance in Section modeSee Section and Sketch mode.

Add tool graphics to scene image: When copying the scene from a window, include the tool elements in the image.

Colors

Design color scheme: Select a color scheme from the menu. This option controls the color scheme used in the Design windowArea in the user interface that displays your model or assembly. Also known as Workspace.. You can choose between two pre-set color schemes: White Background or Black Background. Elements displayed in the design area will change to colors that work well for the background color.

You can change the colors for other elements. Click the color next to an individual element and choose a new color from the drop-down. Select colors from the Custom, Web, or System palettes.

Click Reset to change all the colors back to the SpaceClaim defaults.

Highlight and Select scheme: Select a scheme from the drop-down menu. Classic and Default cannot be modified. Custom allows you to modify color options to create your own scheme. Use Ctrl+Shift+H to toggle through schemes in the following order: Classic; Default; Custom.

Mesh back face color: Enable or Disable the ability to show mesh back faces in a different color and choose which color.

Mesh Highlight and Select scheme: Choose the Classic or Default scheme, or choose Custom and set the following:

• Highlighted mesh
• Highlighted selected mesh
• Selected mesh